This article briefly describes how to make installers for Windows that can handle the multiple installation paths that a VST or more generally a plugin installer might need to deal with.
I recently tried to port a software to Windows, and some dependencies required the Microsoft Visual Studio C++ compiler. I therefore needed to use their version of cmake, vcpkg and ninja. I figured out that the best way to interract with these tools was through the Visual Studio Developer Powershell console. As I don't like Visual Studio, I figured out how to run its terminal inside vscode and will share the hack here.
This article lists use cases to demonstrate how awesome debugging with the help of GDB can be.
A quick tutorial on how to profile software with a convenient live dataviz web interface. It also support all scripting languages and binary formats.